Which is the LEAST popular Amiga?

[Jiffy]

Well, it seems the winner is the A1500--it hasn't even been mentioned in the least popular thread!

The A1500 is an A2000. As is the A2500.

[pVC]

Well, it seems the winner is the A1500--it hasn't even been mentioned in the least popular thread!

But it wasn't separate Amiga model at all.. just normal A2000 with extra drive and removable sticker Only sold in UK.

For the main question I'd say A600 too. It didn't sell much as at that time it didn't offer that much more than A500 in practise. And Amiga's most popular days were ending at that time. Although I think it was the last Amiga model sold in "normal" shops here (Finland). A1200 was only sold in dedicated shops, but as it was that much better than older models, it got more popular among the hobbyists.

But nowadays the situation is a bit distorted. I guess the A600 is one of the most popular models to get into retro computing...

[Lockon_15]

@Gulliver
...and if you really did bought A1200 at that time (OK, maybe in early 1993) you would still be short of joy on getting most of KS1.3 games working at all. KS2+ did made quite a mess back then, but it could be remedied with extra effort.
 
For me, A1000 was and still is the least popular Amiga. Very hard to expand and maintain at all times...

[Beast96GT]

The A1500 is an A2000. As is the A2500.

My A2500 is not an A2000--the badge says so!  (lol, that previous post was a joke, BTW).

[clusteruk]

Well, it seems the winner is the A1500--it hasn't even been mentioned in the least popular thread!

I hope you don't mean my Checkmate 1500 :-)

[tokyoracer]

I would go to say an A3500 is the rarest one or an original Commodore A4000T. The A600's are as commen as muck compared to them.
Or maybe the A2500?

@Gulliver
...and if you really did bought A1200 at that time (OK, maybe in early 1993) you would still be short of joy on getting most of KS1.3 games working at all. KS2+ did made quite a mess back then, but it could be remedied with extra effort.
at all times...

Thats very strange as my one is from early '93 and I never had an issue with OCS games before (just used the boot up trick with the mouse buttons).

[Boot_WB]

The A1500 is an A2000. As is the A2500.

I thought the A1500 was just a towerised A1200 with a micronik Z2 busboard ??

EDIT: Was getting confused with the "Micronik A1300" and "Micronik A1400" in their horrible plastic towers. I really don't like those towers..

[tokyoracer]

I thought the A1500 was just a towerised A1200 with a micronik Z2 busboard ??

No the A1500 was sold in the UK only as far as I know. Long story short it was to try and blow the after market A500 desktop case kit (Checkmate) out of the market with Commodores "official" A1500, which is an A2000 with an extra floppy drive and a sticker over the "A2000" badge.
Hardly see the point why they went to all that effort as the desktop kit was far from a good seller.

[skilgannon]

I need to chime in here from the UK and say that although the 600 was great looking - the 2.04 Rom's caused no end of problems in getting games to work so in that sense (along with the 500+) it was the most unpopular.  These days though (as I think Camy said) you can have an A600 with 3.1 Roms and Compact Flash solution that works as sweet as a nut and I'm now seeing these as being really desirable (my friend has one like this and it's tops!).   So you can't play AGA games on it but no REAL loss there

For rarity (which obv is not the same as unpopular) I would say that the A4000 was the rarest of machines where I lived at the time - probably due to their price.  The A1200 was probably the most popular of all the machines as everyone I knew upgraded their 500's for an A1200 and I think that still, these days the 1200 with the compact flash solution is a fantastic machine (especially if you add an indivision to it!).

John

[pan1k]

I don't like my A2000s. They are a heavy A1000 with ZII slots. It doesn't have too many useful features. For classic gaming, i'd get an A500. Much more portable. I don't regret growing up with an A2000 though...

[JC]

I'd have to say that the walker is the least popular. The case design just didn't make good sense, not to mention that the white disk drives against the black case clashed. As for the A600 well, when Walden Software was selling them on the cheap I bought as many as I could and sold them to friends who loved them due to easy TV connectivity, easy portability do to it's compact design and the fun factor of course. I had one friend who expanded his with an accelerator, ram, and 3.1 roms, got online and used it to do some web design. I also read about a guy who used one to run a desktop publishing company and the only expansion he bought for it was a ram card. So the A600 was really the first minimig and a pretty nice machine in my opinion.

[tone007]

I don't know if prototypes count.

[Ilwrath]

I'll probably be drawn and quartered, but my vote for current LEAST popular Amiga is the A1000.  As stock, it's a little TOO retro. (Kickstart on a floppy disk?  OCS?  256KB RAM?  OUCH!) As upgraded, it kind of loses it's novelty as the first Amiga. (It's the first Amiga, except I added a real Kickstart board, wedged in a hard drive and a sane amount of RAM, or even swapped the whole motherboard!  But it's still somehow the first Amiga! ...errr...).

The 600 was (rightfully) the least popular on release.  It was one of Commodore's worst decisions, and that is saying something, being from a company known for bad decisions.  But, today, since ALL Amigas are so retro, The A600's cute shape and compact size make it kind of adorable.  And the PCMCIA and memory slots now have easy to obtain accessories available, so that has helped it gain popularity, as well.

To me, the A500+ was just a revision of the A500.  Sure, you got a 2.04 ROM with it, but you could buy a $20 kickstart switch, and pick up a cheap (or sometimes free) 1.3 ROM from your local C= dealer, and voila, instant compatibility obtained.  Quite FAR from the least popular.  (And if you had an A500, you probably bought that same kickstart switch and socketted a 2.04 on it, so you could use newer utilities, anyhow, so I really fail to see any real relevance in caring which ROM version shipped with any particular A500 revision.)  

Back in the day, having the kickstart switcher, ECS Agnus, and PAL/NTSC switch were typically the telltale marks showing that someone actually USED that A500.  

[tone007]

I'd have to say that the walker is the least popular.

Ridiculous, the demand to units produced ratio on the Walker would blow any other Amiga away, and that's how I'd define popularity.

[save2600]

I'll probably be drawn and quartered, but my vote for current LEAST popular Amiga is the A1000.  As stock, it's a little TOO retro. (Kickstart on a floppy disk?  OCS?  256KB RAM?  OUCH!) As upgraded, it kind of loses it's novelty as the first Amiga. (It's the first Amiga, except I added a real Kickstart board, wedged in a hard drive and a sane amount of RAM, or even swapped the whole motherboard!  But it's still somehow the first Amiga! ...errr...).

You asked for it  ;-)

[playgeneration]

I thought the Walker was a nice deisgn at the time, and it would have probably been a better idea if it had been made, rather than selling high priced standard A1200's again.
 
In terms of how much use they must get, the CDTV and in particular 1000 must be the least popular, they are so limited in use and are very limited in terms of expansion.
 
On the other hand if you want to know how unpopular an amiga is based on how much people are prepared to pay for them, then the CDTV and 1000 are at the opposite end, and its the 500 and 600's that come off worst, as they can be bought for so little.